Group C+D Elimination Round, Leg 2, Round 14Skjern Haandbold (DEN) vsHC Motor Zaporozhye (UKR)

Skjern Bank Arena (Skjern, DEN)Sunday, 4 March, 15:10Leg 1: HC Motor Zaporozhye 32:30 Skjern Haandbold

Media InformationVELUX EHF Champions LeagueSeason 2017/18

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Skjern Haandbold vs HC Motor Zaporozhye

• Zaporozhye are leading the tie after winning 32:30 in the first leg at home.

• Artem Kozakevych scored eight goals in Zaporozhye’s 32:30 win in the first leg, while Markus Olsson netted in nine times for Skjern.

• In the upcoming two seasons, Skjern each faced even more Ukrainian teams, first eliminating Brovary in the EHF Cup season 2000/01, then Donetsk in the 2001/02 Challenge Cup season.

• Zaporozhye had qualified twice for the Champions League Last 16 (2013/14, 2015/16), while Skjern only once was part of the knock-out stage in 2003/04.

• Both sides had been eliminated in the Last 16 playoffs in the previous years: Skjern by Brest in 2016, Zaporozhye by Montpellier in 2017.

• While Skjern with one exception (Serb, Tibor Ivanisevic) count on players from Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Faroe Islands), Zaporozhye have with the exception of Polish, Pawel Paczkowski, only players from former Soviet countries (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania) in their squad.

• The only former VELUX EHF Champions League winners in both squads are Dane, Anders Eggert (Skjern), who had raised the trophy with Flensburg in 2014, and Pole Paczkowski, who won the trophy with Kielce in 2016.

• Besides them, two more players had been part of previous editions of VELUX EHF FINAL4 events: Bjarte Myrhol (Skjern) with Rhein-Neckar Löwen and Sergey Shelmenko (Zaporozhye) with Chekhovskie Medvedi.

• With 67 goals, Skjern’s left back Markus Olsson currently is third best scorer of the VELUX EHF Champions League, Aidenas Malasinskas tops Zaporozhye’s scorer list with 54 strikes.

• Skjern were winners of Group C with eight wins and two defeats, while Zaporozhye finished second in Group D (six wins, one draw, three defeats).

• Skjern won all home matches in the group phase, while Zaporozhye only won two of five away matches so far.

• Skjern had the best attack of all 16 teams in the Groups C/D with 326 strikes and the best defence by 252 goals conceded, just ahead of Zaporozhye (263).

• The Norwegians Eivind Tangen and Bjarte Myrhol (both Skjern) and the Belarusians Maxim Babichev and Barys Pukhouski (both Zaporozhye) are the only players involved in MOTW, who played at the EHF EURO 2018 in Croatia.

• Both team captains - Myrhol and Shelmenko - have played for German side Rhein-Neckar Löwen, but not at the same time.

• Skjern count on two players with the last name Konradsson, but Jesper is Swedish, Tandri Icelandic.

Round 14

Most Games vs HC Motor Zaporozhye:Bjarke Fredsted Christensen 3Markus Olsson 3Rene Toft Brølling Rasmussen 3Kasper Søndergaard Sarup 3Emil Siersbæk Bergholt 2Morten Balling Christensen 2Jacob Lyhne Hansen 2Thomas Klitgaard 2Lasse Mikkelsen 2Bjarte Hakon Myrhol 2Søren Pedersen 2Daniel Svensson 2

Most Goals vs HC Motor Zaporozhye:Kasper Søndergaard Sarup 19Markus Olsson 18Lasse Mikkelsen 11Bjarte Hakon Myrhol 11Rene Toft Brølling Rasmussen 9

GROUP C+D Elimination Round

Most Games vs Skjern Handbold:Zakhar Denysov 3Dmytro Doroshchuk 3Gennadiy Komok 3Artem Kozakevych 3Iurii Kubatko 3Barys Pukhouski 3Sergey Shelmenko 3Olexandr Shevelev 3

Most Goals vs Skjern Handbold:Barys Pukhouski 20Aidenas Malasinskas 15Sergey Shelmenko 14Artem Kozakevych 13Olexandr Shevelev 8

Sunday, 4 March, 15:10 hrsPlaying hall:Skjern Bank ArenaRanunkelvej 16900 SkjernDenmarkCapacity: 3,200

Domestic league

888ligaen

Last 4 games

28/02 vs Bjerringbro-S. L30:31

21/02 @ Aalborg W25:27

16/02 vs Aahus Handball W32:27

07/02 @ TTH Holstebro W30:31

Next game:

07/03 @ Nordsjaelland

Standings as of 01/03

1. Skjern 21 608:554 35

2. GOG Haandbold 20 566:496 32

3. Bjerringbro-S. 21 635:539 30

4. TTH Holstebro 20 533:499 25

...

14. Tonder 19 545:648 8

Domestic league

Superleague

Last 4 games

20/02 @ Zntu-Zas W28:47

16/02 vs Donbass W42:23

09/02 vs ZTR Zaporozhye W25:24

03/02 vs NAEC Netishyn W56:11

Next game:

07/03 @ ZTR Zaporozhye

Standings as of 01/03

1. Motor 17 742:356 34

2. ZTR Zaporozhye 20 727:429 34

3. Donbass 19 590:539 26

4. Zntu-Zab 17 543:462 23

...

9. NAEC Netishyn 18 333:730 2

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Historic encounters in the EC

Skjern Handbold vs HC Motor Zaporozhye 0-1-2 (92:99) 1:5

04.10.2015 HC Motor Zaporozhye vs Skjern Handbold, VELUX EHF Champions League – Group D 31:26 (15:13)06.12.2015 Skjern Handbold vs HC Motor Zaporozhye, VELUX EHF Champions League – Group D 36:36 (17:19)24.02.2018 HC Motor Zaporozhye vs Skjern Handbold, VELUX EHF Champions League – Elimination Round C+D 32:30 (19:14)

Details of last Skjern Handbold vs HC Motor Zaporozhye match24.02.2018 (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

(VELUX EHF Champions League – Elimination Round C+D, Leg 1) 32:30 (19:14)Referees: Dalibor Jurinovic/Marko Mrvica (Croatia).

Suspensions: 0 – 2’ (Nielsen 2’).Number of 7m: 6/6 – 0.

Attendance: 2,700.

Victor Kireev Gennadiy Komok -- Evgeniy Buinenko Iurii Kubatko Maxim Babichev Aidenas Malasinskas (7) Olexandr Shevelev (1) Zakhar Denysov Dmytro Doroshchuk Artem Kozakevych (8) Pawel Paczkowski (2) Aliaksei Shynkel (2) Igor Soroka (3) Lev Tcelishchev Sergey Shelmenko (4) Barys Pukhouski (5)

Emil Nielsen Tibor Ivanisevic --(9) Markus Olsson Tandri Már Konradsson(2) Anders Eggert Magnussen (1) Christoffer Cichosz Mikkelsen (1) Jesper Konradsson Jonathan Stenbäcken(6) Bjarte Hakon Myrhol (1) Bjarke Fredsted Christensen Mathias Gliese Jensen(3) Rene Toft Brølling Rasmussen (7) Kasper Søndergaard Sarup Cornelius Kragh Aastrup Mads Willette Houmoller Eivind Tangen

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Most Goals in one game Skjern Handbold vs HC Motor Zaporozhye:

Markus Olsson 9 24.02.2018 HC Motor Zaporozhye-Skjern Handbold 32:30Lasse Mikkelsen 8 06.12.2015 Skjern Handbold-HC Motor Zaporozhye 36:36Kasper Søndergaard Sarup 8 06.12.2015 Skjern Handbold-HC Motor Zaporozhye 36:36Kasper Søndergaard Sarup 7 24.02.2018 HC Motor Zaporozhye-Skjern Handbold 32:30Rene Toft Brølling Rasmussen 6 06.12.2015 Skjern Handbold-HC Motor Zaporozhye 36:36Bjarte Hakon Myrhol 6 24.02.2018 HC Motor Zaporozhye-Skjern Handbold 32:30

Most Goals in one game HC Motor Zaporozhye vs Skjern Handbold:

Aidenas Malasinskas 8 04.10.2015 HC Motor Zaporozhye-Skjern Handbold 31:26Barys Pukhouski 8 06.12.2015 Skjern Handbold-HC Motor Zaporozhye 36:36Artem Kozakevych 8 24.02.2018 HC Motor Zaporozhye-Skjern Handbold 32:30Barys Pukhouski 7 04.10.2015 HC Motor Zaporozhye-Skjern Handbold 31:26Sergey Shelmenko 7 06.12.2015 Skjern Handbold-HC Motor Zaporozhye 36:36Aidenas Malasinskas 7 24.02.2018 HC Motor Zaporozhye-Skjern Handbold 32:30

Last Ten Games in VELUX EHF Champions League:

Skjern Handbold: current run – lost one23.09.2017 Elverum NOR @ Elverum Handball NOR W 27:3201.10.2017 Velenje SLO @ Rk Gorenje Velenje SLO L 31:2908.10.2017 Skjern DEN vs Abanca Ademar Leon ESP W 33:2512.10.2017 Schaffhausen SUI @ Kadetten Schaffhausen SUI L 25:2405.11.2017 Skjern DEN vs Kadetten Schaffhausen SUI W 32:2209.11.2017 București ROU @ Dinamo Bucuresti ROU W 23:3619.11.2017 Skjern DEN vs Elverum Handball NOR W 35:2525.11.2017 León ESP @ Abanca Ademar Leon ESP W 26:3103.12.2017 Herning DEN vs Rk Gorenje Velenje SLO W 35:2024.02.2018 Kharkiv UKR @ HC Motor Zaporozhye UKR L 32:30

HC Motor Zaporozhye: current run – unbeaten eight24.09.2017 Lisboa POR @ Sporting CP POR W 23:3101.10.2017 Montpellier FRA @ Montpellier HB FRA L 28:2008.10.2017 Kharkiv UKR vs HC Metalurg MKD D 28:2814.10.2017 İzmit TUR @ Besiktas Mogaz HT TUR D 28:2804.11.2017 Kharkiv UKR vs Besiktas Mogaz HT TUR W 28:2211.11.2017 Chekhov RUS @ Chekhovskie Medvedi RUS D 30:3018.11.2017 Kharkiv UKR vs Sporting CP POR W 32:2925.11.2017 Skopje MKD @ HC Metalurg MKD W 22:3003.12.2017 Kharkiv UKR vs Montpellier HB FRA W 31:3024.02.2018 Kharkiv UKR vs Skjern Handbold DEN W 32:30

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Skjern Handbold vs Ukrainian clubs 3-3-5

Season Opponent Home Away Competition

1999/00 ZTR Zaporozhye 16:20 20:23 EHF Champions League – Group C2000/01 HC Switlotechnik Brovary 30:16 23:23# Cup Winners’ Cup – Round 32001/02 Shakhtyor Akademi Donetsk 25:24 31:31# Challenge Cup – Last 162011/12 HC Dinamo-Poltava 33:21 21:26 EHF Cup – Round 32015/16 HC Motor Zaporozhye 36:36 26:31^ VELUX EHF Champions League – Group D2017/18 HC Motor Zaporozhye 30:32* VELUX EHF Champions League – Elimination Round C+D

# Match played in Skjern DEN^ Match played in Brovary UKR* Match played in Kharkiv UKR

HC Motor Zaporozhye vs Danish clubs 6-1-2

Season Opponent Home Away Competition

2012/13 KIF Kolding 21:24 27:25# EHF Cup – Group B2014/15 Aalborg Handball 25:28^ 36:30 VELUX EHF Champions League – Group D2015/16 Skjern Handbold 31:26* 36:36 VELUX EHF Champions League – Group D2016/17 TTH Holstebro 34:28+ 30:28 VELUX EHF Champions League – Group D2017/18 Skjern Handbold 32:30+ VELUX EHF Champions League – Elimination Round C+D

# Match played in Horsens DEN^ Match played in Kyiv UKR* Match played in Brovary UKR+ Match played in Kharkiv UKR

From the first round of the VELUX EHF Champions League 2017/18 Group Phase a new player’s award have been introduced for the Matches of the Week. EHF Marketing have prepared a trophy called ‘Player of the Match’ which will be presented and handed over by different sponsors throughout the season.

Awardees:

Round 1: Hendrik Pekeler (Rhein-Neckar Löwen) Round 2: Slawomir Szmal (PGE VIVE Kielce) Round 3: Mattias Andersson (SG Flensburg-Handewitt) Round 4: Roland Mikler (Telekom Veszprém HC) Round 5: Buster Juul-Lassen Engelbrecht (Aalborg Handbold) Round 6: Niklas Landin (THW Kiel) Round 7: Nikola Karabatic (Paris Saint-Germain Handball) Round 8: Vuko Borozan (HC Vardar) Round 9: Thierry Omeyer (Paris Saint-Germain Handball) Round 10: Cyril Dumoulin (HBC Nantes) Round 11: Viran Morros de Argila (FC Barcelona Lassa) Round 12: Domagoj Pavlovic (HC PPD Zagreb) Round 13: Tobias Karlsson (SG Flensburg-Handewitt)

New trophy for the Matches of the Week: “Player of the Match”

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Skjern Handbold players’ career statistics against HC Motor Zaporozhye

Goalkeeper GP W D L G AVG HI PIM

Tibor Ivanisevic SRB 1 0 0 1 0 0,00 0 0Emil Nielsen DEN 1 0 0 1 0 0,00 0 2’Niklas Simonsen FAR 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0Sebastian Skov Uhrenholt DEN 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0

Player GP W D L G AVG HI PIM

Cornelius Kragh Aastrup DEN 1 0 0 1 0 0,00 0 0Jeppe Haahr Anneberg DEN 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0Bjarke Fredsted Christensen DEN 3 0 1 2 5 1,67 4 0Anders Eggert Magnussen DEN 3 1 0 2 9 3,00 4 0Kristian Hindo DEN 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0Mads Willette Houmoller DEN 1 0 0 1 0 0,00 0 0Frederik Malund Jalk DEN 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0Mathias Gliese Jensen DEN 1 0 0 1 0 0,00 0 0Thomas Klitgaard DEN 2 0 1 1 5 2,50 5 0Jesper Konradsson SWE 1 0 0 1 1 1,00 1 0Tandri Már Konradsson ISL 1 0 0 1 0 0,00 0 0Christoffer Cichosz Mikkelsen DEN 1 0 0 1 1 1,00 1 0Bjarte Hakon Myrhol NOR 6 3 1 2 22 3,67 6 (2) 0Markus Olsson SWE 3 0 1 2 18 6,00 9 0Rene Toft Brølling Rasmussen DEN 3 0 1 2 9 3,00 6 2’Mikkel Lundgaard Riis DEN 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0Kasper Søndergaard Sarup DEN 3 0 1 2 19 6,33 8 0Jonathan Stenbäcken SWE 1 0 0 1 0 0,00 0 0Eivind Tangen NOR 1 0 0 1 0 0,00 0 0

Anders Eggert Magnussen (SG Flensburg-Handewitt 2011/12); Bjarte Hakon Myrhol (Rhein-Neckar Löwen 2012/13, Rhein-Neckar Löwen 2013/14)

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HC Motor Zaporozhye players’ career statistics against Skjern Handbold

Goalkeeper GP W D L G AVG HI PIM

Victor Kireev RUS 1 1 0 0 0 0,00 0 0 Gennadiy Komok UKR 3 2 1 0 0 0,00 0 0 Anton Terekhov UKR 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0

Player GP W D L G AVG HI PIM

Maxim Babichev BLR 3 2 1 0 5 1,67 4 2’ Evgeniy Buinenko UKR 1 1 0 0 0 0,00 0 0 Zakhar Denysov UKR 3 2 1 0 0 0,00 0 0 Dmytro Doroshchuk UKR 3 2 1 0 0 0,00 0 0 Hleb Harbuz BLR 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0 Artem Kozakevych UKR 3 2 1 0 13 4,33 8 2’ Iurii Kubatko UKR 3 2 1 0 2 0,67 2 0 Aidenas Malasinskas LTU 2 2 0 0 15 7,50 8 0 Pawel Paczkowski POL 1 1 0 0 2 2,00 2 0 Barys Pukhouski BLR 3 2 1 0 20 6,67 8 0 Sergey Shelmenko RUS 3 2 1 0 14 4,67 7 0 Olexandr Shevelev UKR 3 2 1 0 8 2,67 4 4’ Aliaksei Shynkel BLR 1 1 0 0 2 2,00 2 0 Igor Soroka RUS 1 1 0 0 3 3,00 3 0 Lev Tcelishchev RUS 1 1 0 0 0 0,00 0 0 Ievgen Zhuk UKR 2 1 1 0 5 2,50 3 0

Maxim Babichev (HC Meshkov Brest 2015/16) 2009/10, Celje Pivovarna Lasko 2013/14); Roland Mikler (Dunaferr SE 2001/02 – DNP, Pick Szeged 2010/11); Laszlo Nagy (FC Barcelona-Cifec 2006/07); Andreas Nilsson (HSV Hamburg 2012/13, HSV Hamburg 2013/14); Istvan Timuzsin Schuch (HCM Constanta 2010/11); Renato Sulic (RK Zagreb 2003/04, Celje Pivo-varna Lasko 2006/07); Mirsad Terzic (RK Zagreb 2005/06, RK Zagreb 2006/07); Cristian Ugalde Garcia (FC Barcelona-Cifec 2006/07)

VELUX EHF Champions League 2017/18 - MOTW #14 Media Information

byEHFMedia&Communications,01/03/2018Contributors: Björn Pazen, Roy Knoppert